"The Flag and Union Imperiled" - Charleston, S.C. - April 12, 1861

Long-simmering tensions between North and South finally exploded in warfare in April of 1861 at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Confederate leaders demanded that Fort Sumter's Federal troops evacuate the fort and return the site to the state. When President Lincoln refused, Confederate forces bombarded the fort and its Federal defenders returned the fire.

Karte CW 035 (Format european) und Nr. 1 im Set »North«

"Old Jack" - Gen. Stonewall Jackson

As an instructor at the Virginia Military Institute before the war, Thomas J. Jackson was known to his students as "Old Jack" and "Tom Fool Jackson". His military genius emerged during the War Between the States, however, and "Old Jack" gained lasting fame as "Stonewall" Jackson.

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"There Stands Jackson Like a Stone Wall" - General Thomas J. Jackson, First Manassas (Bull Run), Virginia - July 21, 1861

On July 21, 1861, at the Battle of First Manassas, attacking Union forces forded Bull Run Creek and assaulted the Confederate left flank. The Southerners fell back, and by early afternoon the North appeared on the verge of victory. But a Virginia brigade, commanded by General Thomas J. Jackson, stood unmovable like a stone wall, giving birth to Jackson's famous nickname. That afternoon, a confederate counterattack drove the exhausted Federals back across Bull Run in retreat. The South won through perseverance, luck and the determination of Jackson. It was the first major land battle of the war, a Southern victory and the beginning of the legend of "Stonewall" Jackson.

Karte Nr. 1 in den Sets »The Paintings« und »The Civil War«

"Stonewall Jackson and Staff"

Vers. 1: He was an obscure instructor at a Southern military college when the War Between the States began. Within months, however, he was famous in the South and feared in the North as "Stonewall" Jackson, Robert E. Lee's famous "right arm". Few military leaders in history matched his success and no other Confederate commander could replace him when he fell.

Vers. 2: He was the most popular of all Confederate generals. To his men, he was "Old Jack"; to the folks at home, he was "Stonewall". To the enemy, he was a relentless, mysterious "blue-light" Presbyterian who struck with the speed of a "foot cavalry" and the power of a thunderbolt. He was General Thomas J. Jackson, and in early 1863 - at the peak of his career - he was a legend in gray.

Trading Card No.: 82 - »The Art of Mort Künstler« und Karte Nr. 1 im Set »Legends in Gray«

"First to the Guns" - Battle of Wilson's Creek - August 10, 1861

At Wilson's Creek, one of the Civil War's first major engagements, Confederate forces led by General Ben McCullough battled Federal troops under General Nathaniel Lyon near Springfield in southwestern Missouri. The fighting was inconclusive for hours until Lyon was killed in action and Federal forces withdrew.

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"Guns of Autumn" - Lee in Charleston - December 15, 1861

"Our country requires now every man to put forth all his ability, regardless of self", Lee wrote in the autumn of 1861. The President's military advisor then went to Charleston. In three months he oversaw construction of a defensive system that enabled Charleston to survive 587 days of heavy bombardment and besiegement.

Karte mki-01 (Mort Künstler Inc.) und Nr. 1 im Set »South«

"Southern Stars" - Kernstown, Virginia - Winter 1862

War tests the might and the faith of a nation's people. Both show forth in this depiction. On a cold winter night in 1862, Confederate cavalry passed Opequon Presbyterian Church at Kernstown, Virginia, just as the midweek evening worship service was ending. For a moment, war and peace came together, as soldiers exchanged looks with civilians.

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"Until We Meet Again" - Jackson's Headquarters, Winchester, Virginia - Winter 1862

Vers. 1: General Jackson says goodbye to his wife, May Anna, who joined him at winter headquarters the winter of 1861-1862 and often brought him a basket of food for supper. Their only child, Julia, was born the following November.

Vers. 2: The closest friend Jackson ever had was his second wife, Anna. During the winter of 1861-62, they were together at Winchester, Virginia. Anna often came to see him at his headquarters in the Moore home. When they parted on the eve of the Valley campaign, Anna was pregnant.

Karte CW 057 (cont.) und Nr. 2 in den Sets »South« und »The Civil War«

"The Ghost Column" - Fort Donelson, Tennessee - February 16, 1862

It was a Southern disaster. Facing a superior Northern army, the commanding Confederate officers at pivotal Fort Donelson surrendered their forces opening Tennessee and the Southern heartland to Northern invasion. Determined to resist defeat and the capture of his troops, one Confederate commander refused to surrender. "I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command, and I will not do it if they will follow me out", vowed Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest. Follow him they did. Like ghosts in the winter night. Forrest and his column of troops made their way through snowy Tennessee thickets, eluded the enemy, and survived to fight again. Nathan Bedford Forrest would become a dreaded opponent to invading Northern armies, a champion to citizens of the Confederacy and a Legend in Gray.

Karte LGPP-11 (cont., als CW 075 auch european) und Nr. 2 im Set »Legends in Gray«

"Rebel Sons of Erin" - Ft. Donelson Campaign - February 13, 1862

America's Irish community, like so many other Americans, was divided by the War Between the States. Less known than their Northern counterparts, but no less fervent in their patriotism, were Southern Irishmen, who promptly took up arms in defense of the South and Southern Independence. Outfitted in new uniforms trimmed in red, and equipped with British Tower muskets from the War of 1812, the 10th Tennessee, C.S.A. endured a regimental baptism of fire during the Fort Donelson Campaign of 1862. On February 13, 1862, the 10th Tennessee (Irish) engaged the enemy at Erin Hollow near Dover, Tennessee. It was the only combat the troops would experience as a full regiment. Shoulder-to-shoulder beneath their regimental flag of Irish green, they poured fire into the Federal ranks. Their well-crafted uniforms had been supplied by one of their own, Lieutenant Colonel Randal W. McGavock, an affluent former Nashville mayor who had outfitted the entire regiment. Into battle with him went McGavock's personal battle flag, which served as a reminder to his troops that he was with them. They were the defenders of their Southern homeland. They were the Rebel Sons of Erin.

Karte CW-213 (cont.) und Nr. 3 im Set »South«

"The Monitor and the Virginia" - Hampton Roads, Va. - March 9, 1862

The Confederate ironclad CSS "Virginia", built with the salvaged hull and engines of the former USS "Merrimack", severely damaged the U.S. fleet at Hampton Roads, Virginia, on March 8, 1862. The next day, the Virginia was engaged by the Federal ironclad USS "Monitor" in an indecisive contest that ended when the "Monitor" withdrew. It was the first combat between ironclad warships.

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"Confederate Winter" - Gen. Taylor at Swift Run Gap, Va. - March 1862

Throughout the Civil War and in all seasons, both sides struggled for control of Virginia's vital Shenandoah Valley. In March of 1862, Confederate General Richard Taylor and his Louisiana troops learned about mountain winters first-hand when they marched into the Valley during a severe snowstorm. Not until near war's end, did Northern forces effectively control the Shenandoah Valley.

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"Battle for the Shenandoah" - Spring 1862

As Lee and Grant faced each other over the siege lines at Petersburg, Jubal Early's Confederate army prowled the Shenandoah Valley. Sent to clear the valley once and for all, General Philip Sheridan began a ruthless campaign. His Army of the Shenandoah battered Early at Winchester, Fischer's Hill, and Cedar Creek. The Union cavalry, under the direction of such auspicious commanders as Wesley Merritt and George Armstrong Custer, equally shattered Confederate cavalry screens in hundreds of skirmishes and small encounters. Time was running out for the Confederacy, and for the Shenandoah - the bread basket of Virginia.

Karte CW-021 (euro.) und als Nr. 2 im Set »North«

"Sheridan's Men" - Shenandoah Valley - Spring 1862

Union General Philip Sheridan, short and fiery with a hot temper, came east with the goal of using the Union cavalry as a formidable fighting force-an army unto itself. In 1864. Sheridan's men defeated Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley and raided the Valley's rich agricultural resources, destroying farms, mills, crops, homes and livestock in an effective, but controversial, campaign.

Karte CW-023 (euro.); als Nr. 3 im Set »North«

"Fight at Fallen Timbers" - Col. Nathan B. Forrest & Capt. John H. Morgan - Shiloh, April 8, 1862

Vers. 1: On April 8, 1862, Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest was in a fix. Guarding the rear of the retreating Confederate column after Shiloh, he was hounded by a Union party led by General W.T. Sherman. Despite a Union advantage in numbers, Forrest chose to charge the advancing foe. Heard shouting, "Charge! Charge!" above the din, Forrest led his three hundred fifty men, including Captain John Hunt Morgan and his Kentuckians, and stopped the Union column. During the ensuing melee, the badly wounded colonel cut his way out, and escaped amidst a hail of bullets, as Sherman watched helplessly. "That devil Forrest" would be a thorn in Sherman's side until the end of the war.

Vers. 2: Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston had hoped his surprise attack on the Northern army at the Battle of Shiloh would be the Southern victory that drove Northern forces from Tennessee. Instead, the near-victory for the Confederates had ended in Southern defeat, the battlefield death of Johnston and a disastrous Confederate withdrawal. Federal troops under General William T. Sherman pursued the retreating Southerners and stumbled into a ferocious Confederate rear guard force commanded by Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest. The fearless Forrest boldly charged the enemy and rashly kept going even when his men halted. Although shot and seriously wounded, he slashed his way out and rode away to future acts of martial glory. His enemy, General Sherman, shook his head in wonder at "that devil Forrest" - and Nathan Bedford Forrest gained fame as a Legend in Gray

Karte CW-072 (cont./euro.); Nr. 3 im Set »Legends in Gray« und als Nr. 4 im Set »South«

"Jackson Enters Winchester" - Winchester, Virginia - May 25, 1862

General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and his hard-driving "Foot Cavalry" arrived at the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester on the morning of May 25, 1862 after a forced night march. At dawn, Jackson launched an assault on a larger Northern army commanded by General Nathaniel P. Banks. After a stubborn defense, the Northern forces retreat from Winchester, which had been occupied by the enemy for weeks. Later that morning, Jackson entered the town - and was celebrated as a liberator. Winchester's citizens unfurled their Confederate banners, lined the streets and saluted Jackson and his troops with cheers. "Our entrance to Winchester", Jackson confided to his wife, "was one of the most stirring scenes of my life".

Karte CW-026 (euro.); als Nr. 4 im Set »Legends in Gray«

"Jackson's Foot Cavalry" - Old Mill, Strasburg, Virginia - June 1, 1862

They were known as "Jackson's Foot Cavalry" so named because they had a reputation for marching at the pace of cavalry. They were commanded by General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, and in the spring and summer of 1862, were charged with defending Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Like Jackson, they were all Virginians and they did the unthinkable: In 38 days, they marched some 400 miles, engaged in six battles and defeated five Northern generals. The triumphant Valley Campaign made Stonewall Jackson the master of the Shenandoah Valley and his famous "Foot Cavalry" became the stuff of legends.

Karte CW-002 (cont.) und als Nr. 3 im Set »The Civil War«

"Stuart's Ride Around McClellan" - June 13, 1862

With plumed hat, flashy uniform, and flair for the dramatic, Jeb Stuart seemed an incarnation from the age of cavaliers. His ride around the entire Union army (Army of the Potomac) in June 1862 raised the question (one Southern newspaper chortled) "of whether the annals of warfare furnish so daring a deed".

Karte CW-192 (cont./euro.) und als Nr. 5 im Set »South«.

"… They Were Soldiers Indeed" - Generals Jackson and Lee - June 28, 1862

The largest and costliest of the Seven Days battles near Richmond was Gaines' Mill. Lee's first victory came when the Texas Brigade broke the Federal line but incurred great losses in the process. The next morning, Jackson and Lee surveyed the ground where the Confederates had charged. Jackson exclaimed, "The men who carried this position were soldiers indeed!"

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"I Will Be Moving Within the Hour" - Battle of Second Manassas - August 24, 1862

On August 24, 1862, at a hillside battle conference overlooking the northern Virginia countryside, General Robert E. Lee made a bold and dangerous gamble. Although heavily outnumbered by a huge Northern army under General John Pope, Lee decided to divide his forces and attack the enemy. He outlined his strategy with Generals Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson, James Longstreet and J.E.B. Stuart. Soon, the sprawling army encamped within view of the hill began moving toward battle. The engagement that followed became one of Robert E. Lee's most dramatic victories the Battle of Second Manassas. There, the huge Federal army was decisively defeated, General Pope's Northern invasion of Virginia was halted, and the daring strategy unleashed by Lee and Jackson boosted their fame as Legends in Gray.

Karte CW-166 (euro.); als Nr. 5 im Set »Legends in Gray«

"Gods and Generals" - Antietam Campaign, Leesburg, Virginia - September 5, 1862

Harrison Hall was General Robert E. Lee's headquarters during the Antietam Campaign, and was the scene of a council of war with Lee and his generals. Assembled with their staffs were (pictured, left to right) General James Longstreet, General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, Brigadier General Lewis Armistead, and General J.E.B. Stuart. Ahead lay what Lee feared most for his army: General McClellan would discover Lee's strategy, and the Army of Northern Virginia would be threatened with annihilation at the Battle of Antietam.

Karte CW-285 (euro.); als Nr. 6 im Set »Legends in Gray«

"Stonewall Jackson at Harpers Ferry" - Harpers Ferry, Virginia - September 15, 1862

In the dark of night General "Stonewall" Jackson led his troops through the vital hamlet of Harpers Ferry, Virginia. General Robert E. Lee had taken the war to the North across Maryland. Jackson was charged with taking Harpers Ferry and the Federal troops defending it-an order he promptly accomplished. Federal forces had discovered Lee's invasion plans, however, and were moving to destroy his army. Jackson would have to rush northward from Harpers Ferry to join Lee at the Battle of Antietam. Lee's army would be saved, but plans for a Northern invasion would have to be delayed for almost a year and by then "Stonewall" Jackson, Lee's irreplaceable "right arm" would be dead.

Karte CWP2 (cont.); im European-Format als Karte Nr. 2 im Set »The Paintings«

"Jackson at Antietam" (Sharpsburg) - General Stonewall Jackson, Dunker Church - September 17, 1862

At the Battle of Antietam - fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland - General Robert E. Lee engaged Federal forces under General George B. McClellan in the bloodiest single day of the war. At one point, Lee's army seemed on the verge of destruction. Defecting disaster, however, was a force of hard-fighting Southern troops led by General Thomas J. Jackson - who again proved himself worthy of the name "Stonewall".

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"Raise the Colors and Follow Me!" - The Irish Brigade at Antietam (Sharpsburg), Maryland - September 17, 1862

On September 17, 1862, at the Battle of Antietam, the solitude of the Maryland countryside was torn apart near Sharpsburg. Northern attacks against Robert E. Lee's thin left line failed, and the Federal attack shifted toward the center. Leading the way was General Thomas Francis Meagher and his "Irish Brigade", composed of immigrants and displaced Irish nationals. Brave and reckless, they surged toward a road that was ablaze with Confederate muskets. The green flag of the 69th was riddled. Eight colors bearers had already fallen and the Irish green was trailing in the dust. Then Meagher cried out, "Boys, raise the colors and follow me!" Within minutes, the brigade suffered a staggering 60% loss and earned lasting fame for one of the war's greatest displays of battlefield courage.

Karte CWP3 (cont.); im european-Format Karte Nr. 3 im Set »The Paintings« und Nr. 4 im Set »The Civil War«

"Sharpsburg War Council" - September 17, 1862

Vers. 1: What became the bloodiest single day in American history had just occurred along Antietam Creek in western Maryland. In the tense darkness of evening, Lee met with his principal lieutenants: from left to right, Gen. John Bell Hood, Gen. D.H. Hill, Gen. James Longstreet (leaning over the table), Gen. D.H. Jones (seated), Gen. A.P. Hill, Gen. Jubal Early and Gen. Stonewall Jackson. To stay and offer battle anew or to retire to Virginia were the options. Lee chose both.

Vers. 2: It had been the war's bloodiest day. The fighting had begun at dawn and had raged all day among the fields and forests near Sharpsburg. Maryland. General Robert E. Lee's army of 51.000 troops had faced a superior force of 75,000 Federals commanded by General George B. McClellan, who was also armed with a lost copy of Lee's troop deployments. On the night of the battle, Lee assembled his key commanders outside his headquarters tent. Should they stay and fight, or should they retreat? In the end, the hard choice was left to Lee - and he chose to face the enemy again the next day. When dawn came on the 18th, Lee's Army of Northern Virginia would be in place and ready to receive another enemy attack.

Karte CW-234 (cont.); als Nr. 6 im Set »South« und Nr. 7 im Set »Legends in Gray«

"Night Crossing" - Lee and Jackson - September 18/19, 1862

General Robert E. Lee, accompanied by General "Stonewall" Jackson, stood on the banks of the Potomac River and oversaw his army retreat back into Virginia. - Lee had hoped to end the war and win Southern nationhood with a final mighty battle in the North. Instead, his army had been turned back in the bloodiest day of the war at the Battle of Antietam. Federal forces had dealt Lee's troops a terrible blow - but in Virginia they would fight again.

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"Lee at Fredericksburg" - Princess Anne Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia - 9:40 a.m., November 20, 1862

Although it lay in the path of war between Washington and Richmond, the historic Virginia city of Fredericksburg had been miraculously spared the ravages of war. Yet in November 1862, an ominous foreboding fell over the city as the Northern Army appeared across the river. The arrival of General Robert E. Lee and his troops on November 20 gave Fredericksburg's citizens some hope, which was soon dashed when Lee recommended they leave the city for their own safety. Two day later, during a blinding snowstorm, the city was evacuated. On December 11, the first Federal shells crashed into the houses and shops of the colonial city. Fredericksburg would never be the same.

Karte CWP4 (cont.); im european-Format Karte Nr. 4 im Set »The Paintings«

"Strategy in the Snow" - Fredericksburg, Virginia - November 29, 1862

In late November of 1862, deep snow carpeted the countryside near the historic Virginia town of Fredericksburg. General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia held a long line through the city and along the south side of the Rappahannock River. Across the river lay the Federal Army of the Potomac, commanded by General Ambrose B. Burnside, and massed in force far greater than Lee's strength. To counter the inevitable Northern attack, Lee conferred with his "right hand", General Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson in a tent conference on the evening of November 29th. Amid the silently falling snow. Lee and Jackson developed the defensive strategy that would shatter wave after wave of courageous Northern troops in the bloody battle to come. The strategy plotted in the snow that night thwarted the Northern invasion of Virginia and enhanced the reputations of Lee and Jackson as Legends in Gray.

Karte LGPP-6 (cont., als ► CW-170 auch im european-Format); Nr. 8 im Set »Legends in Gray«

"Confederate Sunset" - Fredericksburg, Virginia - November 30, 1863

Robert E. Lee, General Jackson and General Longstreet discuss their next steps after a significant victory at Fredericksburg. Soon, Lee and Jackson would proceed to the Battle of Chancellorsville, which would be Jackson’s final engagement.

Fredericksburg, VA, February, 1863 - Lee, Jackson and Longstreet - three of the most fascinating commanders of the Confederate Army. The last time these three remarkable leaders were together was during the Fredericksburg campaign of late 1862 and early '63. "I decided to paint the three at sunset", Künstler says, "because, although they didn't know it at the time, they were in the sunset of their time together. The sunset of success would soon fall on the Confederacy."

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"The Fighting 69th" - Gen. Meagher and the Irish Brigade - Fredericksburg, Va., December 2, 1862

Their green flags flying, the soldiers of the Irish Brigade had proven their courage under fire at Antietam. Now they faced Lee's legions again. This time their Confederate counterparts held the high ground on the south side of the Rappahanock River at Fredericksburg. The Army of the Potomac arrived on the river's opposite side in mid-November. With the army was the Irish Brigade-composed of the 63rd, 69th, and 88th New York, the 28th Massachusetts and the 116th Pennsylvania. With winter looming, the men expected a lull in the fighting and promptly constructed winter quarters. However, more than cold and snow awaited them at Fredericksburg: on December 13th the men in blue would make one of the bloodiest assaults of the war.

Karte CW-231 (cont.); im european-Format Karte Nr. 4 im Set »North«

"War is So Terrible" - Longstreet and Lee, December 13, 1862

General Robert E. Lee watched the fighting unfold at the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862. It would prove to be a decisive Confederate victory - and a bloody slaughter of Northern troops. As Lee watched his troops repel the Northern soldiers with great losses, he turned to General James Longstreet. "It is well that war is so terrible," said Lee, "lest we grow too fond of it."

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"The Angel of the Battlefield" - Clara Barton with Walt Whitman at Chatham - December 15, 1862

Following the Battle of Fredericksburg in December of 1862, Clara Barton tended to hundreds of wounded men at a field hospital that had been established at the Lacy House, also known as Chatham. Lying among the sea of bloody blue uniforms were a number of gray-clad wounded in need. One rebel, Captain Thurman Thomas of the 13th Mississippi Volunteers, was caught behind enemy lines, but grateful for the mercy he received. Barton treated the wounded Confederate with the same care and concern that she employed with her own boys. Her act of charity for Thomas and his companions echoed the sentiment that true compassion drew no political distinction. Throughout the remainder of the war, she routinely helped soldiers from both sides and those who survived regarded her as their savior.

Als Karte CW-335 in den Formaten continental und european; als Nr. 5 im Set »The Civil War«

"Morgan's Raiders" - Alexandria, Tennessee - December 21, 1862

The gray-clad horsemen were assembled for review by Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan, the daring and flamboyant Confederate cavalry com-mander made famous by his dashing raids in the war's Western Theater. Like the dark clouds gathering above them, the Southern horse soldiers would soon unleash a storm of fury on the enemy. A day after his review. Morgan led 4,000 cheering cavalrymen on a bold raid against Northern forces in Federal-occupied Kentucky which was home to many of Morgan's men. They stormed Federal garrisons, captured valuable military supplies, burned the key railroad bridge at Elizabethtown and disrupted Northern supply lines. Kentucky would remain in Federal control despite Morgan's success-ful "Christmas Raid", but upon their return to Tennessee, Morgan's Raiders would receive a heros' welcome and General John Hunt Morgan would be celebrated as a Legend in Gray.

Karte LGPP-7 (cont., als ► CW-005 auch im european-Format)

"My Friend, the Enemy" - Rappahannock River, Virginia - December 25, 1862

Johnny Reb and Billy Yank had far more in common than typical combatants. In the winter of 1862, Northern and Southern soldiers often met on the banks of Virginia's Rappahannock River to swap tobacco for coffee, play cards or just exchange stories. If they had to go back to shooting at each other the next day, it wasn't personal for many of them. At war's end, the camaraderie became genuine reconciliation "My friend, the enemy", the old soldiers came to call each other-as Americans all.

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"Merry Christmas, General Lee" - Moss Neck, Fredericksburg, Virginia - December 25, 1862

It was a passing moment of cheer amid the harsh realities of war. On Christmas day of 1862, General Robert E. Lee attended a holiday dinner at General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's winter headquarters, located in an outbuilding at Moss Neck Manor. The manor was home to the Corbin family. As Lee left the dinner to return to his headquarters that evening, he passed some guests arriving for a holiday party at the manor house. After spending an enjoyable afternoon, surely Lee returned to the ways of war at least momentarily refreshed by faithful company and the warm wishes of "Merry Christmas, General Lee".

Karte Nr. 7 im Set »The Civil War«

"The Emancipation Proclamation" - January 1, 1863

On New Year's Day of 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Although the act did not immediately free slaves in pro-Union states, it did declare all slaves to be free in the Confederacy and encouraged passage of the 15th Amendment that ended American slavery in 1865.

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"Confederate Christmas"

Winter's icy blast has come, heralding the arrival of a Christmas far away from home and family. The soldiers must share the pleasures of the holiday amongst themselves, without loved ones, but not without some merriment. Several soldiers have brandished an axe to retrieve a yuletide tree for the camp that they may decorate with pieces of hardtack and bright paper. From modes haversacks will come a feast, and maybe a bottle of spirits. During the few hours of peace, they will have their celebration.

Karte Nr. 8 im Set »The Civil War«

"Mosby in Warrenton" - Warrenton, Virginia - January 18, 1863

Following the Partisan Ranger Act of 1862. Major General J.E.B. Stuart appointed one of his most gifted scouts, First Lieutenant John Singleton Mosby, to lead the 43rd Batallion Virginia Cavalry. "Mosby's rangers" were formed that following January as the winter of 1863 blanketed the Virginia countryside. On the 18th of that month while en route from Fredericksburg to Upper Fauquier, Mosby and fifteen men detached from the 1st Virginia Cavalry and stopped off in the town of Warrenton to dine at the renowned Warren-Green Hotel.

Karte Nr. 9 im Set »Legends in Gray«

"Review at Moss Neck" - Fredericksburg, Virginia - January 20, 1863

On January 20, 1863, Lee rode to Moss Neck (Jackson's headquarters) to review the cavalry brigade of his son, Gen. W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee. Several generals, including Jackson and Stuart, accompanied the army chief down a line of horsemen thin in number but still determined in spirit.

Karte CW-183 in den Formaten continental und european; als Nr. 7 im Set »South«

"The Mud March" - Fredericksburg, Virginia - January 21, 1863

On January 21, 1863, the Union's Army of the Potomac was advancing again as General Ambrose E. Burnside attempted to flank General Robert E. Lee's army. The march was conducted in the midst of a brutally fierce winter storm which caused the road to be churned into an ocean of mud.

Karte CW-083 (euro.); als Nr. 9 im Set »The Civil War«

"Model Partnership" - Winter of 1863

The eleven months that Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. Jackson were together created a model military partnership. Lee was a brilliant military strategist whose tacties were executed by Jackson with hammer-like force. Their collaboration, especially Jackson's flank marches and sudden attacks, kept the larger Union army constantly uncertain of the Confederate's activities, and intentions.

Karte Nr. 10 im Set »The Civil War«

"… and the Two Generals Were Brought to Tears"

By mid-1863, severe suffering affected much of the South. Southerners dealt with their hardship and pain through faith, and a revival reminiscent of America's "Great Awakening" swept through the South's armies and its home front. At a revival meeting in Virginia, Generals Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson both devout Christians listened to the reassuring words of the Gospel, thought of the sacrifices of those at home, and according to an eyewitness, "were brought to tears".

Karte Nr. 11 im Set »The Civil War«

"Winter Riders" - Raleigh, N.C. - February 5, 1863

Dedicated to defending state's rights, fearful of a powerful Federal government, and suspicious of the industrialized North, Southerners generally believed their first allegiance was to their home state. The Southern states, they believed, had both a Constitutional right and a just cause for leaving the Union and forming a new nation.

Like these North Carolinians depicted on a wintery Raleigh street, countless Confederate soldiers fought and died for the cause of Southern independence.

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"Bravest of the Brave" - Black Horse Cavalry, Warrenton, Virginia - February 22, 1863

Among the most respected of Confederate cavalry was a 4th Virginia Cavalry company known as the Black Horse Cavalry. The troopers served as scouts for both Lee and Jackson. On February 22, 1863, the men rode wearily, but proudly, through a sleeping Warrenton, the seat of the county from which the company had originated.

Karte CW-237 (cont., als ► mki-1 auch im european-Format) und Nr. 8 im Set »South«

"Grierson's Butternut Guerillas" - Newton Station, Miss. - April 24, 1863

Disguised as Confederate cavalry, an advance guard of Colonel Benjamin Grierson's Federal raiders struck the rail-road hamlet of Newton, Mississippi, on April 24, 1863, capturing rolling stock and destroying supplies. Grierson's hard-riding horse soldiers covered 600 miles through Confederate territory in 16 days, destroying railroads, distracting Confederate troops and escaping into Federal lines.

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"The Last Council at Chancellorsville" - Jackson, Lee and Stuart - May 1, 1863

On the night of May 1, 1863, the Confederacy's three great chieftains - Lee, Jackson and Stuart - studied a military map by the glow of a campfire. General J.E.B. Stuart, Lee's cavalry commander, had discovered a weakness in the Northern lines. Although outnumbered and threatened by Northern forces on two fronts. Lee decided to divide his army and attack the enemy's weak point. At daylight, General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson would lead his corps on a dramatic march around the enemy flank and shatter the Northern line in a powerful surprise attack. It would be Lee's greatest victory, but it would be won at a terrible cost to the South: "Stonewall" Jackson would be mortally wounded. A year later, J.E.B. Stuart would also fall. Never again would Lee, Jackson and Stuart confer together the campfire conference at Chancellorsville was their last council.

Karte LGPP-2 (cont., als ► CW-049 auch im european-Format); Nr. 10 im Set »Legends in Gray« und Nr. 12 im Set »The Civil War«

"The Last Meeting" - Chancellorsville, Virginia - May 2, 1863

Few associations in American military history have matched the success of Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson. Lee devised brilliant strategy; Jackson executed it with hammer-like force. Lee and Jackson and the soldiers of the Confederacy kept alive the dream of Southern independence through the horrors of America's bloodiest war and in the face of "overwhelming numbers and resources".

Outnumbered by superior Northern forces at Chancellorsville, Virginia in May of 1863, Lee gambled again and divided his army, sending Jackson in a forced march to launch a surprise attack against General Joseph Hooker's huge Federal army. Early on the morning of May 2nd, with the field wet from a fresh rain, Jackson began his march halting long enough for a final roadside conference with Lee. Later that day, Jackson's surprise attack enabled Lee to achieve his greatest victory, but it was won at a terrible cost: "Stonewall" Jackson was mortally wounded. The roadside conference that morning was the last meting for the two Legends in Gray.

Karte LGPP-10 (cont., als ► CW-237 auch im european-Format); als Nr. 11 im Set »Legends in Gray«

"Col. Robert Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts" - Boston, May 28, 1863

The 54th Massachusetts Infantry was the first volunteer black regiment raised in the North. The ranks were filled with former slaves and freedmen, all sharing the same dream of serving their country. Under the tutelage of its firebrand colonel, Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th became a model of perfection in drill and camp. Their true test came in battle, a suicidal assault on Battery Wagner on the South Carolina coast. Killed on the ramparts of the fort, Shaw was buried in an unmarked grave with the casualties of his regiment.

Karte CW-069 (cont., als CW-069 auch european) und als Nr. 5 im Set »North«

"The Grand Review" - Brandy Station, Virginia - June 5, 1863

General J.E.B. Stuart's Confederate horse soldiers may have been the finest cavalry force in the world. In June of 1863, Stuart staged an impressive review of his troops on the plains south of Brandy Station. A trainload of Southern officials and their wives attended the spectacle, watching ten thousand mounted troops passing in review before Stuart and his staff. It was a dramatic demonstration of the Confederate cavalry, which had dominated the Northern horse soldiers. The Federal cavalry had gradually improved, however, and four days after Stuart's grand review, horsemen in blue and gray would meet at Brandy Station in the greatest cavalry battle of the war.

Karte CWP5 (cont.); Nr. 5 im Set »The Paintings«

"The Enemy is There" - Gen. Lee and Staff - Gettysburg - June 30, 1863

When Robert E. Lee took his army into the North on the campaign that ended in defeat at Gettysburg, he hoped to end the war and secure southern nationhood with a major victory. After two days of unprecedented fighting, he was urged to withdraw but chose to fight on. "The enemy is there", he vowed, "and I am going to strike him."

Karte Nr. 12 im Set »Legends in Gray«

"Rendezvous with Destiny" - Gen. John Buford at Gettysburg - June 30, 1863

General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was converging on strategically located Gettysburg, and so was the Union army. First on the field at Gettysburg, General John Buford surveyed the expected field of battle, and picked out strong defensive lines for the Army of Potomac's 1st Cavalry Division - on a series of ridges flanking the town. Buford's choice of "good ground" on June 30th enabled the Union to prevail on the war's greatest field of battle.

Karte Nr. 13 im Set »The Civil War« und Nr. 1 im Set »Gettysburg«

"The Eve of Battle" - Gen. J. Buford, Gettysburg, June 30, 1863

General John Buford, an experienced Federal cavalry officer, arrived at Gettysburg just before the Northern and Southern armies collided there. Realizing a pivotal battle was about to occur, he selected the best defensive ground for the Federal forces. His decision played a major role in the Northern victory.

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"Morning Riders" - Near Seminary Ridge - July 1, 1863

As they rode through the early morning mists on the grounds of Gettysburg's Lutheran Seminary, General John Buford and his Federal cavalry knew what awaited them. Up the dusty Pennsylvania roads from Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee's battle-seasoned Confederate army was marching toward the crossroads community in search of a Southern victory. Buford's troops had reached Gettysburg early, and would try to hold the most defensible terrain until the full Federal army arrived. "You will have to fight like the devil", Buford warned his men. Fight they would and their delaying stand would do much to make the Battle of Gettysburg a decisive victory for the Union.

Karte GP-11 (cont., als ► CW-101 auch im european-Format); Nr. 2 im Set »Gettysburg«

"There's the Devil to Pay" - Gen. John Buford, Gettysburg - July 1, 1863

As the fighting at Gettysburg began to unfold, Brigadier General John Buford and his Northern cavalrymen stubbornly held their ground. Without reinforcements, Buford warned, "there's the devil to pay". Finally, General John F. Reynolds arrived with three Northern corps but Reynolds was soon shot dead and the battle's first day belonged to the South. General Buford had picked Gettysburg's most defensible positions for the Federal army, however, and the Battle of Gettysburg would end in a Northern victory.

Karte GP-7 (cont.); als Nr. 3 im Set »Gettysburg«

"Hold at All Cost" - Gen. J. Buford, Gettysburg - July 1, 1863, 9:30 am

Smart cavalry leaders taught their men to dismount in time of battle rather than make galloping and suicidal charges against entrenched positions. On July 1, 1863, Federal Gen. John Buford deployed his horsemen on foot to meet the lead elements of an approaching Confederate army on the outskirts of Gettysburg.

Karte CW-116 (cont., als ► CW-015 auch im european-Formatals CW-116 auch european); als Nr. 6 im Set »North«

"Distant Thunder" - Lee at Cashtown - July 1, 1863

A day earlier, Lee had learned that the Army of the Potomac had a new commander - Major General George Meade and that the Federal army was moving northward toward the crossroads community of Gettysburg. "Tomorrow, gentlemen", Lee had told his officers, "we will go over to Gettysburg and see what General Meade is after." He did not want to do battle before his spread-out army was concentrated, however, and had cautioned his three corps commanders to avoid bringing on a engagement before the army was reunited. Now, this first day of July, it appeared that battle had been sparked. By the time Lee reached the inn at Cashtown, he could hear the sound of battle arise like distant thunder. For this moment, Lee and his soldiers in gray held great expectations of another triumph-one that would end the agony of this war and make Southern independence a reality.

Karte Nr. 4 im Set »Gettysburg«

"Dilger at Gettysburg" - Near Barlow's Knoll - July 1, 1863

It was a desperate moment. Driven back on the first day at Gettysburg, the Northern army had to hurriedly redeploy along Cemetery Ridge before the confederates could take advantage of the retreat. Captain Hubert Dilger, a veteran Federal artillery officer, ordered two of his field pieces forward without infantry support. Dilger's gun crews were exposed to a devastating fire, but they unflinchingly pounded away at the Confederate positions - and slowed the Southern advance. Northern forces were able to fortify strong positions on Cemetery Ridge, and there they stayed until two more days of battle left them victorious.

Karte GP-6 (cont., als ► CW-015 auch im european-Format); Nr. 5 im Set »Gettysburg«

"Are You Hurt, Sir?" - Gens. Gordon and Ewell, Gettysburg - July 1, 1863

Near twilight on July 1, 1863, triumphant troops from General Robert E. Lee's. Army of Northern Virginia surged through the town square of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. After a day of ferocious fighting, they had finally broken the Army of the Potomac's defensive line outside of town. Retreating Northern troops had streamed through Gettysburg in disorder, reforming to the south on Cemetery Ridge. Pouring into the town behind them were the cheering troops of Lee's Second Corps accompanied by Generals Richard S. Ewell and John B. Gordon. Robert E. Lee and his hard-fighting men in gray and butternut appeared to have defeated the Army of the Potomac once more and this time on Northern soil.

Their victory was fleeting however: the next two days of battle would deliver a decisive Southern defeat, making the battle the turning point of the Civil War. For the South, the first day's success at Gettysburg would be the twilight of victory.

Karte Nr. 6 im Set »Gettysburg«

"Twilight in Gettysburg" - Gen. Robert E. Lee - Gettysburg Town Square - July 1, 1863

General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was flushed with success. Deep within Northern territory, they had defeated General George Mead's Federal army in the first day's fighting at Gettysburg. As Lee appeared in Gettysburg's captured town square at sundown, his troops saluted him with cheer after cheer: "Marse Robert! Marse Robert! Marse Robert!" Lee received the adoration with typical humility. Although ferocious fighting lay ahead among the hills and fields of Gettysburg. Lee and his men were confident; never had the Southern struggle for nationhood seemed so close to victory.

Karte CW-164 (cont., als ► CW-164 auch im european-Format); Nr. 7 im Set »Gettysburg«

"Chamberlain and the 20th Maine" - En Route to Gettysburg - July 1, 1863

Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain and the 20th Maine had endured bloody fighting before, but they were put to the supreme test at Gettysburg. They were ordered to defend the critical left flank of the Federal line against repeated Confederate assaults. They held their position, the Federal line did not break, and the battle was a major Northern victory.

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"The Grandest Charge Ever Seen" - The Peach Orchard - July 2, 1863

Brigadier General William Barksdale eagerly awaited orders to lead his brigade of Mississippians into battle on Gettysburg's second day. A former U.S. Congressman, Barksdale had become a fearless Confederate commander. When the order to advance finally came, Barksdale's face became "radiant with joy" and he led his men forward in what was described as "the grandest charge ever seen". It temporarily penetrated the Federal line, but cost half the men from Mississippi. One who fell, mortally wounded, was General Barksdale.

Karte CW-048 (cont., als GP-5 auch im european-Format); Nr. 8 im Set »Gettysburg«

"Rush to the Summit" - Chamberlain at Gettysburg - July 2, 1863

On Gettysburg's second day, Colonel Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine Infantry were rushed to Little Round Top, a critically strategic wooded hill that anchored the Federal line. As General Robert E. Lee's confederate army assaulted both sides of the Federal line, Chamberlain and the 20th Maine were ordered to defend the Federal extreme left flank. They did successfully turning back one of Lee's best regiments, the 15th Alabama Infantry, saving the day and perhaps the battle for the Union.

Karte Nr. 9 im Set »Gettysburg«

"Hero of Little Round Top" - Colonel Joshua Chamberlain - July 2, 1863

The orders were clear: "Hold that ground at all hazards." Their situation was desperate. The 20th Maine, commanded by Joshua L. Chamberlain, anchored the left flank of the Federal line on the second day of the battle of Gettysburg. If Robert E. Lee's Confederates turned the flank, the Southern army could attack the Federals from the rear. Chamberlain and his men - numbering less than four hundred - stood firm against charge after charge made by courageous Confederates from Texas and Alabama. Exhausted and nearly out of ammunition, the men from Maine could see the Southern troops massing for one more mighty attack. It would be more than Chamberlain's depleted regiment could bear.

"At that crisis I ordered the bayonet", wrote Chamberlain. "The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man and rose to a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy now not thirty yards away." They charged down the hill, through the shattered woods and over the dead and wounded. Shocked, the battle-worn Confederates retreated.

Karte CW-238, Nr. 7 im Set »North« und Nr. 10 im Set »Gettysburg«

"Chamberlain's Charge" - Little Round Top - July 2, 1863

"Hold that ground at all hazards"", the men of the 20th Maine were ordered. They anchored the left flank of the Federal line on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. If Robert E. Lee's Confederates turned the flank, the Southern army could attack the Federals from the rear, the battle and the Union-could be lost. Commanded by Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain, the 20th Maine turned back charge after charge until they were bloodied, exhausted and almost out of ammunition. As the Confederates made one more mighty attack, Chamberlain ordered the unexpected: a bayonet charge. Down the hill charged the men from Maine. Shocked, the battle-weary Southerners retreated and the day belonged to the Union.

Karte Nr. 11 im Set »Gettysburg« und Nr. 14 im Set »The Civil War«

"The Return of Stuart" - Lee's Headquarters (Gettysburg) - July 2, 1863

On Gettysburg's second day, critical delays and uncoordinated attacks undermined the victory achieved by General Robert E. Lee's Confederates on July 1st. Crippling to Lee's plans was the absence of General J.E.B. Stuart and his cavalry, who were vitally needed to determine enemy movements. Stuart finally arrived after a long and questionable raid behind Federal lines. Like a father disciplining a favored son, a displeased Lee reprimanded the Dixie cavalier - then consoled him with characteristic compassion. A year later. Stuart would be mortally wounded in battle. "I can scarcely think of him without weeping", Lee would say.

Karte CW-162 (euro.); Nr. 12 im Set »Gettysburg«

"Forming the Line" - Alexander and Longstreet at Gettysburg - July 3, 1863

Vers. 1: Lee's best artillerist, Gen. E. Porter Alexander, and Longstreet watched Confederate batteries massing for the July 3 bombardment at Gettysburg. Union guns answered en masse. Soon, Alexander wrote: "the whole length of the line, about two miles, was blazing like a volcano."

Vers. 2: Colonel Edward Potter Alexander understood the awesome task that lay before him on the third day of battle at Gettysburg. General James Longstreet had moved him to field command of his artillery. He was to unleash a massive artillery barrage with more than 150 guns, against the Federal line, which would he followed by an infantry assault on Cemetery Ridge. Despite Alexander's best efforts and the massive amount of Southern shot and steel hurled at Cemetery Ridge, the Federal line would hold and Picket's Charge would fail.

Karte CW-245 (cont.); Nr. 9 im Set »South« und Nr. 13 im Set »Legends in Gray«

"Lee's Old War Horse" - Seminary Ridge (Gens. Longstreet and Lee, Gettysburg) - July 3, 1863

Both knew this could be the war's last battle. On the morning of the third day at Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee called on General James Longstreet to break the center of the Federal line, win the battle and end the war with a Southern triumph. Longstreet had misgivings, but Lee believed his "Old War Horse" could win the day. Longstreet launched his great assault, known forever as Pickett's Charge, but the day and the battle-ended in a disaster for Lee's army and a decisive victory for the North.

Karte CW-100 (cont.) und als Nr. 13 im Set »Gettysburg«

"Longstreet at Gettysburg" - Gen. James Longstreet and Staff

Upon the death of "Stonewall" Jackson in 1863, General James Longstreet became Robert E. Lee's most distinguished lieutenant. He could be cautious and questioning, as he was at Gettysburg, but in a battle he could be determined, effective and courageous. As Lee prepared to surrender at Appomattox. Longstreet was willing to fight on. "General," he told Lee, "unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out."

Karte Nr. 14 im Set »Legends in Gray«

"Keep to Your Sabers, Men!" - General Custer, Gettysburg - July 3, 1863

Sabers held aloft, hundreds of horse soldiers in blue and gray collided in a dramatic, deadly cavalry charge in the final day's fighting at Gettysburg. At the head of his Michigan brigade, Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer led the Federal cavalry into battle, yelling, "Come on you Wolverines!" as he raced toward his gray-clad opponents. On the opposite side of the field, Brigadier General Wade Hampton of South Carolina led the Confederate charge, shouting "Keep to your sabers, men!" The two forces met in a violent collision of dust, smoke and death that finally ended when Hampton withdrew.

Karte GP-10 (cont., als ► CW-093 auch im european-Format); Nr. 14 im Set »Gettysburg«

"Keep to Your Sabers, Men!" - General Hampton, Gettysburg - July 3, 1863

On Gettysburg's final day, Confederate cavalry forces under General J.E.B. Stuart sought to strike the Federal rear but were confronted by the Federal cavalry. At the head of his troops, South Carolina's General Wade Hampton shouted, "Keep to your sabers, men!" as he led a charge. Northern and Southern horsemen met in a violent collision of smoke, dust and death. After a fierce struggle, the Confederate horse soldiers were forced to withdraw.

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"Steady, Boys, Steady" - Battle of Gettysburg - July 3, 1863

Shoulder to shoulder through the inferno of Pickett's Charge, the Virginians of Armistead's Brigade headed resolutely toward the distant stone wall on Cemetery Ridge. They were led by Brigadier General Lewis Armistead, who coolly placed his officer's hat on the point of his saber, held it aloft for all to see and guided his men into the din and death of battle. "Steady, men. steady." Armistead urged them as their ranks were thinned crossing that awful killing field. On that distant ridge, beneath a copse of trees, they finally faltered and fell atop a mat of red banners. Armistead fell with them, and they lay as they marched shoulder to shoulder. Ever afterwards, their final footsteps would be known as the "Highwater Mark of the Confederacy" - and General Lewis Armistead would be a Legend in Gray.

Karte LGPP12 (cont.); anderer Ausschnitt als Nr. 15 im Set »Gettysburg«

"On They Came With Flags Flying" - Pickett's Charge, Gettysburg - July 3, 1863

More than 13.000 Southern troops marched in formation across an open field under withering artillery and infantry fire. For two days General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had tried in vain to destroy the Federal Army of the Potomac. Now, on the third day of battle, Lee launched the mightiest assault of his career. Despite their courage and sacrifice, "Pickett's Charge" would fail - and the battle of Gettysburg would become the turning point of the Civil War. General Lewis Armistead of Virginia would fall mortally wounded at a site forever known as the "High-Water Mark of the Confederacy".

Karte Nr. 16 im Set »Gettysburg«

"Follow Me, Boys" - Cemetery Ridge - July 3, 1863

Battered but determined, a surviving handful of Virginia's bravest pressed forward on the march of death that became known as Pickett's Charge. Led by Brigadier General Lewis Armistead, they had crossed open fields raked by Northern artillery, clambered over rail fences swept by a fiery storm, and charged up the smokey slope of Cemetery Ridge into the massed fire of several thousand Federal guns. "Follow me!" shouted Armistead, and over the wall they charged into the ranks of its valiant Northern defenders. Death and defeat awaited them on that ridge, but they went willingly for the South and Virginia - and their final sacrifice marked "the Highwater Mark of the Confederacy".

Karte Nr. 17 im Set »Gettysburg«

"High Water Mark" - Gettysburg - July 3, 1863

It was an attack doomed from the beginning. Some fifteen thousand Southerners swept across an open expanse three-quarters of a mile wide in an assault against highly fortified Union lines on Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg. Confederate gallantry and Federal valor merged in a massive arena of death, smoke, and noise that prevailed for an hour. To men on both sides who survived it, Pickett's Charge was the climax of their lives.

Karte CW-025 (cont., als ► CW-025 auch im european-Format); Nr. 10 im Set »South«

"The High Tide" - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - July 3, 1863

Vers. 1: It was the "High Tide" of the Confederacy-Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. It began with a long gray line of 15.000 troops arranged in "magnificent order" for a half a mile. Soon the ranks were shredded by shot and shell, and they shrank into small groups of men, gathered under tattered red banners. The most determined crossed the Emmitsburg Road and continued into the face of deadly Northern fire blazing from a stone wall on Cemetery Ridge. More and more fell until, finally, the great assault collapsed. It was the end of Lee's hope to end the war at Gettysburg.

Vers. 2: Straight into the deadly, fiery storm they marched. Across a deadly killing field of open farmland, these sons of the South made the great assault that became famous as Pickett's Charge. Leaving an appalling trail of dead and wounded behind them, a brave and determined remnant reached the stone wall that marked the Federal line on a crest ironically named Cemetery Ridge. There they gave their best in a bloody, chaotic struggle that marked the beginning of the end to the Southern quest for independence. That brief, glorious moment on Cemetery Ridge, where Southern hopes for victory surged and melted away, became known as "The High Tide of the Confederacy". Observed a Confederate survivor, "We gained nothing but glory..."

Karte CW-115 (oben continental, unten european); Nr. 6 im Set »The Paintings«, Nr. 15 im Set »The Civil War« - hier anderer Bild-Ausschnitt - und Nr. 18 im Set »Gettysburg«

"The Angle" - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - July 3, 1863

Pickett's Virginians marched majestically across the mile of open farm fields under a blazing July sun, straight into the storm of Union guns. Victory seemed optimistically close as they surged upon Cemetery Ridge and the center of the Yankee line. Now, with their officers down and no support in sight, they desperately hold onto the stone wall at the Angle. Ahead of them stands a solid line of blue infantrymen of the Philadelphia Brigade, who will not let Pickett's men go any further. The incessant musketry, curses of the combatants, and cries of the wounded create a deafening roar. The oppressive heat and dust, kicked up by thousands of feet adds to the chaos as Americans shoot each other down. This is the High Tide of the Confederacy. As one survivor recalled. "We gained nothing but glory and lost our bravest men."

Karte CW-018 (euro.); als Nr. 8 im Set »North«

"It's All My Fault" - General Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863

Back they came, battered and bloodied the survivors of Pickett's Charge. Moments earlier, these troops and many more the pride of the Army of Northern Virginia had marched courageously in parade-ground precision toward the distant Federal line on Cemetery Ridge. Their ranks shattered by artillery, their fellow soldiers dead or downed by volleys of rifle fire, and their grand charge spent in the death and destruction of battle, the survivors could do nothing but retrace their steps in retreat. Awaiting them was their famous commander, General Robert E. Lee. No blame did he place upon his men. As the defeated warriors limped past, Lee shouldered the blame for the Confederate disaster. "It's all my fault", he called to his men. "It's all my fault."

Karte Nr. 19 im Set »Gettysburg«

"Loneliness of Command"

Between Lee and his soldiers was a mutual and remarkable affection. An officer who saw him often during the war declared that Lee "assumed no airs of superior authority... His bearing was that of a friend having a common interest in a common venture with the person addressed... He was less of an actor than any man I ever saw."

Karte CW-218 (cont.); als Nr. 11 im Set »South«

"The Glorious Fourth" - General Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg - July 4, 1863

After months of stubborn resistance, the powerful Confederate bastion of Vicksburg, Mississippi surrendered to Northern forces. General Ulysses S. Grant, the victor of Vicksburg, rode among his troops at the captured city docks, where he was cheered by thousands of Northern soldiers. The Confederacy had lost the mighty Mississippi, the South was split and the North had won a major victory.

Karte CW-016 (cont.); Nr. 7 im Set »The Paintings«, Nr. 9 im Set »North« und Nr. 16 im Set »The Civil War«

"Morgan's Ohio Raid" - Montgomery, Ohio - July 14, 1863

It was one of the boldest cavalry operations of the Civil War. In July of 1863, General John Hunt Morgan led 2,500 Confederate cavalrymen on a daring, three-week raid through Indiana and Ohio. In Ohio, generations to come would recall the days when the citizens of the Buckeye State defied the Rebel Raiders in the alarming time of Morgan's Ohio Raid.

Karte Nr. 15 im Set »Legends in Gray«

"The Autograph Seekers of Bel Air"

After suffering the defeat at Gettysburg in July of 1863, General R.E. Lee began the painful retreat back into Virginia. Prior to crossing the Shenandoah River near Front Royal, local merchant William M. Buck extended an invitation to Lee and his staff to share refreshments at his nearby estate, Bel Air. The good general accepted this offer and was entertained by the Bucks' daughters playing the piano and singing. Before departing, General Lee took a moment to give his signature to the two young ladies who had gifted him with song.

Karte Nr. 17 im Set »The Civil War«

"Eye of the Storm" - Patrick Cleburne at Chickamauga - September 18, 1863

It was nighttime when Brigadier General Patrick Cleburne led his Confederate troops into the center of battle "the eye of the storm" at the bloody Battle of Chickamauga. A native Irishman who had a meteoric rise in rank and was revered by his men, Cleburne had survived a severe wound to his face a year earlier. In the thickest fighting, Cleburne could be found at the head of his troops, and at Chickamauga saber in hand he led his men into brutal hand-to-hand combat. "It was as if all the fires of earth and hell had been turned loose in one mighty effort to destroy each other", recalled a survivor. Chickamauga ended as a mighty Confederate victory, but a year later amid the horrible slaughter at the Battle of Franklin General Cleburne would fall in a dramatic, futile frontal assault on the enemy. A Legend in Gray, he would die as he had led at the head of his troops.

Karte LGPP-3 (cont.); Nr. 16 im Set »Legends in Gray«

"Battle Above the Clouds" - Lookout Mountain, Tennessee - November 24, 1863

Overlooking Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain was the anchor of Confederate General Braxton Bragg's left flank. On the morning of November 24, 1863, Northern troops led by General Joseph Hooker bridged Lookout Creek and swept the face of the mountain. Among the rocks and tangled growth, Bragg's Confederates fought desperately, while observers from both sides strained to see the battle's outcome through the smoke. The "Battle Above the Clouds" opened the door to Confederate defenses on Missionary Ridge and, ultimately, to General William T. Sherman's devastating march through the Southern heartland.

Karte CWP8 (cont., als ► CWP8 auch im european-Format); Nr. 8 im Set »The Paintings«

"Tender is the Heart" - Generals Lee and Hill - Orange, Virginia - May 1, 1864

On May 1. 1864, General Robert E. Lee joined General A.P. Hill and his wife at the baptism of their daughter, Lucy Lee Hill, who was named in honor of General Lee. A doting father of seven children, Lee humbly took time to act as the child's godfather. It was a tender but fleeting moment. Within a year, Hill was killed at Petersburg, and Lee surrendered at Appomattox. Left behind, however, was Lee's legacy of military genius and personal character - including humility.

Karte Nr. 17 im Set »Legends in Gray«

"On to Richmond" - Grant in the Wilderness, May 7, 1864

Fierce combat in the Wilderness on May 5-6, 1864, brought the Union army's new advance on Richmond to a halt. The new commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant, viewed the Wilderness as the beginning of the end of Lee's army. In the darkness of May 6-7, with Gen George G. Meade by his side, Grant disdained withdrawal and resumed the southward advance. The Army of the Potomac would not retreat again.

Karte CW-065 (cont.); Nr. 9 im Set »The Paintings«, Nr. 10 im Set »Norths« und Nr. 18 im Set »The Civil War«

"The Bloody Angle" - Spotsylvania, Virginia - May 12, 1864

General Ulysses Grant's 1864 invasion of Virginia seemed unstoppable-until Grant ran into Robert E. Lee's rock-hard defense at Spotsylvania Courthouse. One section of Lee's line was in the shape of a mule shoe and defied repeated assaults by courageous Northern troops. Finally, struggling mightily in the rain, Northern troops broke through the Confederate line. Desperate moments followed until a Confederate counterattack drove back the attackers. The fighting was among the bloodiest of the war. With only a log and earthen wall separating them, combatants shot, stabbed and clubbed each other for almost eighteen hours until darkness ended the ordeal.

Karte CWP-10 (cont., als ► CWP-10 auch im european-Format); Nr. 10 im Set »The Paintings«

"Thunder in the Valley Battle of New Market, VA" - May 15, 1864

Virginia's Shenandoah Valley changed hands repeatedly during the War Between the States, as Southern and Northern forces competed for the Valley's crucial thoroughfares and priceless resources. In the spring of 1864, General Franz Sigel and Federal troops launched a drive down the Valley, which was blocked by General John C. Breckenridge - a former U.S. vice president - and his Confederate troops. At the village of New Market, Breckenridge attacked, pounding the Federal positions with field artillery and sending his outnumbered forces in an infantry assault against the Northern line. Led by veteran Virginia troops and 200 cadet volunteers from the Virginia Military Institute, Breckenridge's Southern soldiers routed enemy artillery crews and broke the center of the Federal line. Sigel's force retreated, the Northern invasion of the Shenandoah Valley was stalled again and General John C. Breckenridge grew in stature as a Legend in Gray,

Karte Nr. 18 im Set »Legends in Gray«

"The Charge at Trevilian Station" - General Hampton & the Cadet Rangers - June 11, 1864

After Stuart's death in 1864, Gen. Wade Hampton succeeded to the command of Lee's cavalry. On June 11, the burly South Carolinian led a charge at Trevilian Station. In Hamptons' command was a new company of cadets from the Citadel. Federal horsemen withdrew from the scene the next day.

Karte CW-219 (cont.), Nr. 12 im Set »South« und Nr. 19 im Set »Legends in Gray«

"Shenandoah Sunrise" - Cedar Creek, Virginia - October 19, 1864

General Jubal Early's Confederate troops were outnumbered, battle-weary and hungry. For months they had been hunted up and down Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Their homes and farms had been torched by the enemy; their crops had been destroyed; their livestock had been killed or carried away. Finally, early on the morning of October 19, 1864, General Early's Confederates surprised Northern forces under General Philip H. Sheridan at Belle Grove Plantation near the banks of Cedar Creek. Led by General John B. Gordon, they routed the Northern troops and drove them into a retreat that helped make General Gordon a Legend in Gray. Before nightfall, however, Northern forces reclaimed the field. The brief Southern victory at Cedar Grove was the Confederacy's last hurrah in the Shenandoah Valley.

Karte LGPP-9 (cont., als ► CW-167 auch im european-Format); als Nr. 20 im Set »Legends in Grey«

"War is Hell" - Atlanta, Georgia - November 16, 1864

A new, more ominous style of warfare was introduced by General William T. Sherman in 1864. From Shiloh to Atlanta, Sherman had battled stubborn Southern defenders. After the fall of Atlanta, he devised a campaign to break not only the army, but the spirit of the South by waging war on the South's civilians. On November 16, 1864, as fires raged through Atlanta, Sherman and his soldiers abandoned their supply lines and headed toward the sea. The March to the Sea bled the already staggering Confederacy to death, inflicting unprecedented suffering and devastation and reinforcing Sherman's claim that "war is hell".

Karte CWP-11 (cont., als ► CW-013 auch im european-Format); Nr. 11 in den Sets »The Paintings« und »North«

"The Gettysburg Address" - November 19, 1863

Vers. 1: President Lincoln was invited to deliver "a few appropriate remarks" at the dedication of the new National Cemetery at Gettysburg. It was a cool November day when the President gave the brief speech, completed just the evening before. Replying to featured speaker Edward Everett's lengthy oration, Lincoln believed his brief comments had been a failure. History has proved them the most powerful and persuasive words he ever spoke.

Vers. 2: On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address. It consisted of 272 words and took two minutes to deliver. With it. Lincoln defined his vision of a "new birth of freedom". His elegant phrases continue to ring through the ages and the Gettysburg Address has become the most famous speech in American history.

Karte CW-013 (euro., als ► CW-013 auch im european-Format); Nr. 12 im Set »North« und Nr. 20 »Gettysburg«

"Bringing Cleburne In" - Franklin, Tenn., December 1, 1864

Among the Confederacy's most promising and popular officers, General Patrick R. Cleburne was acclaimed for his bravery and achievements as "the Stonewall Jackson of the West". On November 30, 1864, he valiantly led his troops into a devastating firestorm at the Battle of Franklin. The next day, his body was found among the dead and the South mourned a favored son.

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"The Gunner and the Colonel" - Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C. - January 15, 1865

At Fort Fisher, the largest coastal fortification in the Confederacy, Federal forces under General Alfred H. Terry battled a slim but hard-fighting Confederate garrison to determine the fate of nearby Wilmington - the South's last major seaport. Imported military supplies were vital to the Southern war effort and the Battle of Fort Fisher was a struggle for the lifeline of the Confederacy. When Federal forces captured the giant fort, the seaport was sealed and so was the fate of the Confederacy.

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"The Last Rally at Sayler's Creek" - near Farmville, Virginia, April 4, 1865

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"We Still Love You Just As Much As Ever, General Lee" - Appomattox, Virginia - April 9, 1865

General A. L. Long, Robert E. Lee's biographer and former personal aide, wrote: "It is impossible to describe the anguish of the troops when it was known that the surrender of the army was inevitable. Of all their trials, this was the greatest and hardest to endure... When, after his interview with Grant, General Lee again appeared, a shout of welcome instinctively ran through the army. But instantly recollecting the sad occasion that brought him before them, their shouts sank into silence, every hat was raised, and the bronzed faces of the thousands of grim warriors were bathed with tears. As he rode slowly along the lines, hundreds of his devoted veterans pressed around the noble chief, trying to take his hand, touch his person, or even lay a hand upon his horse, thus exhibiting for him their great affection."

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"Salute of Honor" - Appomattox - April 12, 1865

Placed in command of receiving the Southern surrender was Brigadier General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. At Chamberlain's command, the Northern troops receiving the surrender shifted their weapons to "carry arms", a soldiers's salute, delivered in respect to the defeated Southerners standing before them. Confederate General John B. Gordon immediately recognized this remarkable, generous gesture offered by fellow Americans and responded with a like salute. A new day had begun - built on this salute of honor at Appomattox.

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"The Final Visit" - Robert E. Lee Lexington, Virginia

After the war ended in a Southern defeat, General Robert E. Lee retired to Lexington, Virginia, where he was made president of Washington College (later Washington and Lee University). There, as he worked to restore the peace, he often passed the grave of his most able and trusted commander-General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. When he paused beside Jackson's monument, did Lee ever ponder what would have happened if Jackson had not died in battle?

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Anmerkung: Unmittelbar nach der Kapitulation der Süd-Staaten am 9. April 1865 im Appomattox Court House besuchte Lee das Grab seines früheren Kommandeurs, General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, der am 2. Mai 1863 nach der Schlacht von Chancellorsville durch "Friendly Feyer" verwundet worden war, infolge dieser Verwundung am 10. Mai 1863 starb und am 15. Mai 1863 auf dem Oak Grove Cemetery bei Lexington (knapp 150 Kilometer entfernt von Appomattox) bestattet wurde.

"Private Harrison Hunt 119 Regiment, N.Y.S.V."

From throughout America they came - from farms and plantations, towns and cities, shops and stores - called to defend the cause they believed was right. By the time America's bloodiest war ended, the soldiers in blue and gray made the years of 1861-1865 an epic era of American courage and sacrifice.

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"Veterans of Gettysburg"

The average age of Civil War soldiers at the time of their enlistment was twenty-four. But thousands of boys aged seventeen and even younger lied about their age and became combat soldiers, like these young Union veterans of the war's bloodiest battle.

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"War Between the States"

Known today as the Civil War or the War Between the States, the conflict of 1861-1865 had an official name: the War of the Rebellion. It was also known as the Brothers' War, the War of Secession, the Confederate War, the War of Northern Aggression and other names. Perhaps the most accurate name was the War for Southern Independence.

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"Still Flying"

As many as 1.4 million Southerners served in Confederate service during the War Between the States, fighting for Southern independence. Although usually outnumbered and often poorly equipped, they defended their homeland with a zeal that earned them a matchless reputation as American fighting men.

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"The Flag and Union Imperiled"
Charleston, S.C.
April 12, 1861